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It was the second consecutive year that this event dedicated to raising awareness about road maintenance, organised by ASEFMA and broadcast online live by ITAFEC, was held. It brought together in Madrid politicians, academics and representatives of entities related to the road sector who discussed the influence of the state of pavement on CO2 emissions. According to TweetBinder, the online audience for the event held in Madrid exceeded 1.188.992 users and reached 14.772.788 million impressions.

Among the official profiles that informed about the International Road Maintenance Day is the Ministry of Transport (@mitmagob), the Spanish Road Association (@aecarretera), the Technical Association of Bituminous Emulsions ATEB (@ateb_es), the Argentine Road Association (@AACarreteras), the Paraguayan Road Association (@apc_py), the South African Road Federation SARF (@SARF_01), the French union of road equipment SER (@routepourtous), the French institute of roads, streets and infrastructure for mobility (@IDRRIM), the National Asphalt Paving Association NAPA (@NAPATweets), European Asphalt and Pavement Association EAPA (@eapa_org), the Slovenian asphalt paving association ZAS (@ZdruzenjeZas) and the Ibero-Latin American Asphalt CongressCILA 2019 (@CILA2019).

Regarding the most active users who tweeted the hashtag #IRMD2019, the IRMD official profile (@IRMD2019) led the debate with 341 tweets, followed by ITAFEC (@itafec) with 296, ASEFMA (@asefma_es) with 271, the president of the AMAAC board Raymundo Benítez (@asphaltdefender) with 241, the Department of Road Engineering of the UAX (Departamento de la Ingeniería de Carreteras de la UAX), whose profile is @ingecarreteras, with 148 and the president of ASEFMA Juan José Potti (@jjpotti) with 125 tweets.